Notices by Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206

What if datacenter builders built out there own solar panel farms around the center and battery packs so they were energy independent. then if the datacenter part is less needed in the future we are left with billions invested in solar infrastructure?

gigawatts of solar infrastructure sounds like a win to me, and they have the motivation and capacity.

lemonade.

full text of MoU Iran/US:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863027/us-iran-trump-memorandum-of-understanding-full-text.

wow, that is readable and uh straightforward.

(sorry if you have seen it)

claude.ai is taking safety seriously, and may be overstretching and wobbling, but it is interesting to see.

I was looking for the 1985 Science Magazine article whose title included "western Montana of mechanical transmission of Tularemia" and it stopped the session.

"This model has safety measures that flagged something in this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations."

Starting to weave links to digitized phD theses into wikipedia articles. This one in dutch wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Bonn (look at the end)

soon, nobel prize winners..

Claude code is helping do matches and vetting to get candidate matches to editors to improve articles.

Thank you Leiden University for donating their historic collection so it could be preserved, flipped digital, opened, and linked to!

<insert joke about the readership of phD dissertations... 😀 >

https://archive.org/details/IA40154023_0013

The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital.

https://archive.org/details/noaa

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/two-libraries-two-sets-of-superpowers-the-internet-archive-and-the-noaa-library/

wow, china is leading on manufacturing renewables.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/china/china-energy-security-global-oil-crisis-iran-intl-hnk

Eyelids for Autonomous cars!

Cameras have trouble in the rain-- and now the new Waymo Ojai uses 10 windshield wipers to clean its sensors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo_Ojai

"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is unpatriotic not to read these books."

""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Robert M Hutchins (of Great Books fame)

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215549/page/n149/mode/1up?q=%22unpatriotic+%22

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215549/page/n149/mode/1up?q=%22The+death+of+democracy+is+not+likely+to+be+an+assassination+from+ambush.+It+will+be+a+slow+extinction+from+apathy%2C+indifference%2C+and+undernourishment.%22

geez. Senators want to lock up the law (again).

@carlmalamud spent years making sure the law (and standards included in the law) were publicly accessible for free. Even getting the Supreme Court to declare it so.

yeah, but...

"Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.),
John Cornyn (R-Texas),
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

boo.

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com

I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)

Thank you GitHub!

https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01/generative-ai-is-a-new-drug-report-on-my-first-trip/

@cibyr @inthehands @jaredwhite

yes, y,y,y,y
but "the Drivetrain should be airgapped" ?

what am I missing?

archive.org now coming back online (repeated issues in San Francisco cuz utility blackout)

@internetarchive

SF power still problematic. hit a short outage at @internetarchive HQ

archive.org back online. (good news is , we are getting good at this 😀 )

SF's power situation is still problematic. go go PG&E

https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/

new way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.

fun.

https://display.archive.org/nl

congratulations @internetarchiveeurope and @internetarchive

https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/fun-library-kiosk-and-novel-web-based-display-of-millions-of-web-pages/

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @internetarchive

Thank you crypto folks!

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/ae4800e03c1b55324deec6d6a7630e803eef321d6aba257b733c17b83585cc41

to: https://archive.org/donate/cryptocurrency/

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/business/video/internet-archive-wayback-machine-church-digvid

@scribblesonnapkins

bicycles and ebikes can also be part of the equation.

These cars are cute.

Amsterdam little car. Starting to happen in the US!

Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)

25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.

Can drive on almost all roads in the city.

This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.

all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok, almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CYnKdHTLK2tolrgvIenq7-_Y2D6SlMARkTyvm7ZjTqU/edit?gid=2067870016#gid=2067870016

from: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/speed-limits-per-street-segment/resource/d6034e92-4836-40e5-8e93-52bad2dfaf3d (go sf!)

Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere!

And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs. Now San Francisco.

Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs.

(ala 15 minute cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city )